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msmash
on Sunday February 11, 2018 @11:52PM
from the security-woes dept.

Pyeongchang Winter Olympics organizers confirmed on Sunday that the Games had fallen victim to a cyber attack during Friday's opening ceremony, but they refused to reveal the source. From a report: The Games' systems, including the internet and television services, were affected by the hack two days ago but organizers said it had not compromised any critical part of their operations. "Maintaining secure operations is our purpose," said International Olympic Committee (IOC) spokesman Mark Adams. "We are not going to comment on the issue. It is one we are dealing with. We are making sure our systems are secure and they are secure."

The one most remembered (at least in the US) was after WWII in the '50s mostly. McCarthy and all that fun stuff.

Those scares had a lot to do with communism if I'm not mistaken though I did not live through either of them. As I understand it there was a fear that the idea of communism would take hold in the US and would take over our ideals of freedom and d

The Democrats won't lock up Trump for the same reason that the Republicans won't lock up Clinton.

Locking up failed POTUS tier politicians just because they've committed a crime would set a nasty precedent that neither party wants to set - the system would spiral down into one where politicians would all end up in prison at the end of the careers rather than giving speeches to Goldman Sachs for $300K a shot. Or, even worse from their perspective, one where elite politicians didn't act like they're completely above the law. The horror!

They're like two cats having a fight over who gets to fuck the female - they'll draw blood and maybe disable their opponent but they won't kill each other. The female in this analogy being you, the American voter.

North Korea is trying to play nice guy right now. Getting caught hacking would be detrimental. Russia on the other hand is banned from the entire games and pissed about it. It's kind of a "duh" as far as motive.

Well one of those countries is actually finally making positive strides in international relations with it's neighbour at these games and the other has gained itself the honour of being the only country humiliated and banned from taking part because it had a state sponsored doping ring trying to help it's athletes come top because as a nation they don't take losing well, even though it's all they ever really do.

So given only one nation isn't taking part in the games through it's own stupid fault, given that

That’s because there was a woman standing behind him who wasn’t accompanied by her husband and had authority over a bunch of men.

Oh, you mean that North Korean harridan propaganda minister, who sits on North Korea's Politburo?

You know, North Korea? That country that conducts assassinations in other country's airports using VX nerve agent? That blows up airliners? That literally starves its population? That tortures college students to death?

It would be amazing if we could split a country in half, let one half go socialist and one half capitalist, come back 75 years later, and compare the results. What an experiment that would be

That’s because there was a woman standing behind him who wasn’t accompanied by her husband and had authority over a bunch of men.

Oh, you mean that North Korean harridan propaganda minister, who sits on North Korea's Politburo?

You know, North Korea? That country that conducts assassinations in other country's airports using VX nerve agent? That blows up airliners? That literally starves its population? That tortures college students to death?

It would be amazing if we could split a country in half, let one half go socialist and one half capitalist, come back 75 years later, and compare the results. What an experiment that would be...

1. She's believed to be part of the regime's Propaganda and Agitation Department...so she's prooooobably not trying to defect.

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2. Speaking of family, Kim Jong Un is believed to have ordered the assassination of his own half brother, Kim Jong Nam.

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3. The North Korean regime commits frequent public executions of its own citizens.

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4. In fact, the North Korean regime actually enslaves many of its citizens.

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5. The regime is one of the world's most repressive. It strips its citizens of all sorts of rights, including freedom of expression, freedom of information, and the freedom to move in and out of the country.

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6. Kim Yo Jong's family literally runs gulags.

A United Nations inspector in 2013 spoke of "unspeakable atrocities" inflicted on political prisoners in North Korean camps.

Michael Kirby, a former Australian High Court judge, told the UN his team had heard testimony from a man who had been imprisoned in North Korea from birth, eating lizards, rodents, and grass to survive. One woman was forced to drown her own baby in a bucket.

7. Her brother's regime has been blamed for the death of US college student Otto Warmbier.

Otto Warmbier was detained in North Korea in January 2016 after he was accused of a "hostile act" while on a group tour. Warmbier was accused of stealing a poster at his hotel in Pyongyang, and sentenced to 15 years of prison and hard labor. After being held for 17 months, he was only extradited back to the US when he was in a coma. He died soon after.

Sen. John McCain has said Warmbier was "murdered" by North Korea. "In the final year of his life, he lived the nightmare in which the North Korean people have been trapped for 70 years: forced labor, mass starvation, systematic cruelty, torture, and murder," the Arizona Republican said.

8. She's part of a country that is, quite literally, threatening nuclear war against the US.